"Q: Do you still expect OpenCyc to have a major impact on the Web, on software development and on the world?

"A: Of course. As we've said for almost 20 years now, something LIKE Cyc is needed for semantic sharing of knowledge across applications, to enable semantic integration to happen automatically (in contrast to n-squared labor-intensive post-hoc methods like data warehousing, and in contrast to the impossible requirement that the authors of the separate bodies of individual content work out detailed shared semantics ahead of time.) In modern terms, this means that something LIKE Cyc is needed for the Semantic Web. The delay of OpenCyc has only served to highlight the need for it. We're looking forward to finally filling that need."

Java? — "Basically, you launch 10 non-trivial applications [jEdit, Anm. d. Red.] on your machine. Do it. On both my 256 Megs Linux box and my 128 Megs brand-new laptop, this experiment leads to a disaster. Under Windows 98 (the laptop), Windows broke and I had to reboot (admittedly, it made it very far in the process). What's my point? Well, if I can't launch 10 apps on a decent PC, then the software is wrong. Since jEdit itself, I'm sure you will all agree, is a fine app... then what is to blame? Java itself? I suspect not. [...] My beef with Swing is that it is a framework that doesn't allow you to write lightweight applications. I claim that it will prevent Java from ever "making it big" client-side."

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